Speaking in Tongues
Aleksandr Chernousov writes about the experience of hearing his first language turned to violent authoritarian ends and finding it anew in Oregon
Beyond Plunder
Minal Mistry on how plunder became the basis for our culture economy, and what might replace it.
Tertulias de Película: Lorena, la de pies ligeros / Lorena, Light-Footed Woman
Qué mejor plan para un viernes que ver una película en compañía y quedarse a charlar?
Aprende sobre Lorena, una atleta mexicana que ha hecho historia por derribar estereotipos llevando orgullosa su cultura al resto del mundo, y quédate a comer y charlar al final de la peli.
Entrevista: Carlos habla de migración, peligro, y su sueño americano
Rafael Romero habla con Carlos, un migrante de Guatemala residente de Hermiston, sobre sus razones por emigrar a los estados unidos, los retos que encontró en su trayecto, y que pidiera de los residentes y el gobierno de este país.
Interview: Carlos on Migration, Danger, and His American Dream
Rafael Romero talks with Carlos, an immigrant from Guatemala living in Hermiston, about why he came to the United States, the difficulties he experience in his journey, and what he'd ask of others here.
A Haven, A Refuge
Jaton Rash on the fine line between being sheltered and unsheltered.
A Reluctant Receiver: Summer, Love, and a Bicycle
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt writes about experiencing youthful freedom on a hand-me-down bike.
Unapologetically Afghan American
Yalda Asmatey writes about straddling two worlds: Afghanistan, the country of her birth, and the United States.
Stretching Toward the Sun
T. Nguyen writes about moving from Vietnam to Eastern Oregon
Bridging the Gaps: The Future of the Intergenerational Climate Movement
Amidst devastating wildfires, a global pandemic, and a rapidly changing world, young people across the planet have stepped up to lead in the movement for climate, racial, and social justice. In this workshop, high school organizers Adah Crandall and Danny Cage will offer dialogue and case studies from their involvement in youth-led projects and campaigns: the good, the bad, and the somewhere-in-between. This workshop will invite participants to join in a conversation about collaborative organizing and to imagine the possibilities for a powerful, multigenerational social movement—one that cultivates adult allyship, supports youth, and makes space for youth voices.
Telling Our Story
May Saechao writes about how the Iu Mien community connects to history and traditions across time and distance.
Unstable Connections
Caroline Gao writes about the possibilities enabled by digital communications and the challenges of making these opportunities available to all.
Hidden Histories: Pendleton's Early Chinese Community
The ninth and final program in the Portland Chinatown Museum's series Hidden Histories: Oregon's Early Chinatowns and Chinese Worker Settlements looks at the history of Pendleton. Since at least the 1980s, tourism, media depictions, and even well-known works of fiction have promoted the idea that nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants built and occupied an extensive tunnel network under the city of Pendleton and in many other locations throughout the American West. In this program, Priscilla Wegars, PhD, and Renae Campbell, MA, will explore these "Chinese tunnel" rumors and compare those in Pendleton with the historical record of Pendleton’s Chinese community.
Hidden Histories: Deconstructing the Astorian Chinese Experience
The Portland Chinatown Museum is pleased to announce the eighth program in the Hidden Histories: Oregon's Early Chinatowns and Chinese Worker Settlements series. Please join us on Saturday, October 30, 2021, with featured speakers Dr. Chelsea K. Vaughn, Liisa Penner, and Suenn Ho. In 1870, Astoria had thirteen Chinese residents. A decade later, that number had grown to 1,208 in Astoria proper, with an additional 924 individuals in what was then described as “Upper Astoria,” at the east end of town. Countywide, there were 2,317 residents of Chinese descent, accounting for a full one-third of Clatsop County’s population. The recruitment of laborers to work in the fish canneries accounted for a majority of this growth, but this period also saw an influx of Chinese merchants, whose businesses would cater to both the local Chinese community as well as the broader population of Astoria. Increased mechanization within the canneries combined with exclusionary laws would greatly reduce the number of Chinese laborers living in Astoria by century’s end, and in the years that followed, the full scope of this history would be minimized and the poor treatment experienced by many in the community would be obscured. For our panel, we will look at this larger history, question what it means for this history to be deliberately forgotten, and examine the experiences of the small Chinese American community that remained. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities.
Conspiracy Theories
In this program, we’ll explore some conspiracy theories old and new, famous and obscure. What common themes do they share? How do they operate as stories and how do they evolve? What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and myth, folklore, and “fake news”? We’ll talk about the mechanics of conspiracy theories as we explore how to determine what’s true, what’s false, and whom to trust.
Love and Noodles
Marilou Carrera writes about the meaning of pancit, a dish that is so much more than just fried noodles—it's history, family, and community.
Fermenting My Asian American Identity
Jen Shin writes about how a summer in Vietnam helped her embrace her Korean heritage.
Kitchen Ghost
Digging into the origins of her family's Filipino–Polish food traditions, Lola Milholand finds a tangle of colonialism, identity, and hurt.
Eid al-Adha, Festival of Sacrifice
Visiting family in Egypt during Eid Al-Adha, when sheep and cattle are sacrificed and their meat is given away, an Egyptian-American writer considers family, faith, and violence.
CANCELED - Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Technology is often considered a cure-all to our modern challenges. It is, undeniably, a powerful tool in addressing our greatest endeavors. Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled.Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Technology is often considered a cure-all to our modern challenges. It is, undeniably, a powerful tool in addressing our greatest endeavors. Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
CANCELED - The Space Between Us: Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled.Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Technology is often considered a cure-all to our modern challenges. It is, undeniably, a powerful tool in addressing our greatest endeavors. Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
The Space Between Us: Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities. Admission Fee: $5 donation suggested
On Paper Wings—2008
Brett Campbell writes about how an Oregon filmmaker set out to tell the story of six Oregonians killed by Japanese balloon bombs during World War II in the 2008 “Strangers” issue.
Bridge City
Anna Vo writes on the dark side of local pride and the changes in our attitude toward place required to make Portland a welcoming home for all.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities. A $5 donation is suggested. No person will be turned away for lack of funds.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Oregonians love the wild beauty of our 363 miles of coastline, but finding truly local seafood can be hard, even on the coast. The US imports approximately 90 percent of its seafood and ships out nearly as much to the global market. Why aren’t we eating more local seafood, now that preserving and distribution technologies are the most sophisticated they have ever been? Why do we consider seafood more a delicacy now than it has been in the past? In this conversation, food writer Jennifer Burns Bright helps participants explore our relationship with the products of the sea and cultural traditions involving fishing, eating seafood, and understanding the ocean’s bounty and challenges.
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Technology is often considered a cure-all to our modern challenges. It is, undeniably, a powerful tool in addressing our greatest endeavors. Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Technology is often considered a cure-all to our modern challenges. It is, undeniably, a powerful tool in addressing our greatest endeavors. Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
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Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Technology is often considered a cure-all to our modern challenges. It is, undeniably, a powerful tool in addressing our greatest endeavors. Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another. This event will take place in the board room at Portland Public Schools' main office.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.
Airlie Poetry Night
Airlie Press, a nonprofit publisher, is hosting a free, public, open poetry event at Devil's Den Wine Bar in the Alberta Arts District as part of the Association of Writers and Publishers (AWP) conference. This event is family-friendly, all-ages, and open to anyone interested in reading their work. The event will also featured notable local writers.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
CANCELED: Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Oregon boasts a multibillion-dollar agricultural economy that includes both industrial agriculture and small-scale efforts such as community supported agriculture memberships, farmers markets, and community gardens. These smaller, community-based efforts are on the rise as means to nurture community and create local and autonomous food systems. In this conversation, author Kristy Athens will ask participants to think about the impact of their food choices. Are these choices as consequential as consumers would like them to be? Does “voting with your dollars” significantly shape our agricultural systems?
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Oregon boasts a multibillion-dollar agricultural economy that includes both industrial agriculture and small-scale efforts such as community supported agriculture memberships, farmers markets, and community gardens. These smaller, community-based efforts are on the rise as means to nurture community and create local and autonomous food systems. In this conversation, author Kristy Athens will ask participants to think about the impact of their food choices. Are these choices as consequential as consumers would like them to be? Does “voting with your dollars” significantly shape our agricultural systems?
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Oregonians love the wild beauty of our 363 miles of coastline, but finding truly local seafood can be hard, even on the coast. The US imports approximately 90 percent of its seafood and ships out nearly as much to the global market. Why aren’t we eating more local seafood, now that preserving and distribution technologies are the most sophisticated they have ever been? Why do we consider seafood more a delicacy now than it has been in the past? In this conversation, food writer Jennifer Burns Bright helps participants explore our relationship with the products of the sea and cultural traditions involving fishing, eating seafood, and understanding the ocean’s bounty and challenges.
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Oregon boasts a multibillion-dollar agricultural economy that includes both industrial agriculture and small-scale efforts such as community supported agriculture memberships, farmers markets, and community gardens. These smaller, community-based efforts are on the rise as means to nurture community and create local and autonomous food systems. In this conversation, author Kristy Athens will ask participants to think about the impact of their food choices. Are these choices as consequential as consumers would like them to be? Does “voting with your dollars” significantly shape our agricultural systems?
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Exchange and Change
Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities, on people listening to one another in Lake County, Oregon
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
This conversation will explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Astoria Call to Life: An Earth Day Ingathering
Clatsop Community College Foundation presents a collaborative performance and discussion by philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore and pianist Rachelle McCabe. This program is made possible in part by a Responsive Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive? Facilitator Manuel Padilla will lead this conversation to explore how technology shapes our moral reasoning and our perceptions of, and relationships with, one another.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Is Technology Outpacing Our Humanity?
Whether it be automation, the iPhone, or gene editing, some say our technical capacities have outstripped our moral knowledge. Others believe they have provided us immense creativity in dealing with our biggest ethical questions. Are these mutually exclusive?
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
My Brother's Keeper: "Emmanuel's Gift"
This fall, Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario will present "My Brother's Keeper," a series of eight documentary film screenings exploring the lives of marginalized peoples and issues such as mental health, addiction, and mass incarceration. Each screening will be followed by a presentation and Q&A session by a local nonprofit or government agency.
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Think & Drink on Tourism in Tillamook County
Tillamook County Pioneer Museum and Oregon Humanities present a conversation on the challenges and benefits of tourism in Tillamook County.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Life after War
Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Life after War
Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
"Fish Tales" Seafood Panel Discussion
Exploring local seafood on the North Oregon Coast. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Sanctuary in Name Only
Undocumented Oregonians are only as safe as the policies that protect them. An essay by Elliott Young
What They Carried
The things four refugees brought with them when they came to Oregon. Story by Caitlin Dwyer, photos by Kim Oanh Nguyen
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Life after War
Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Are International Trade Agreements Good for Oregon?
Oregonians have been active and vocal participants in global debates over trade since the creation of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Lawyer and researcher Michael Fakhri will lead participants in a conversation about how we assess the value of international trade agreements.
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Gaining Ground Film Screening and Discussion
This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Good Food, Bad Food
Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Life after War
Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home
Conversation Project: The Space Between Us
Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon
Conversation Project: Fish Tales
Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon
Conversation Project: Life after War
Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home
Making Peace with Chaos
Author Zahir Janmohamed and photographer Tojo Andrianarivo profile student refugees living and thriving in Portland despite uncertainty.
Just People Like Us
Writer Guy Maynard on a little-known history of a Southern Oregon community during World War II where prisoners of war were more welcome than US military of color
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Whose State Is This?
Journalist Brent Walth on how legal measures targeting Latino Oregonians reflect fears of change.
Magazine Podcast: Start
Talking about epigenetics, adoption, faith, and clowns with Oregon Humanities magazine contributors
Almost a Family
Colleen Kaleda writes about the hope and hearbreak of international adoption.
Food Forward
Robert Paarlberg on the history of the Green Revolution and the future of global food production
A Century of War
Writer and historian Andrew Bacevich on changing the way Americans think about war
My Brother, the Keeper
A woman tries to understand her brother's need to hoard. An essay by Dmae Roberts
Pursuing the Science of Happiness
In the complicated quest for bliss, the search is the thing. An essay by Andrew Guest
A Nation of Can-Do Optimists
A brief history of American cheerfulness by Ariel Gore
Designing the Good Life
Beauty is a desirable bonus when design improves our lives. An essay by Lisa Radon
The Guilty Traveler
The complexities of being an American tourist in an inequitable world. An essay by Lucy Burningham
Neverland
The striking difference between travel and escape. An essay by Apricot Irving
The Crossing
A two-week journey toward hope and home. By Vicente Martinez.
Far from Home
The history and future of Slavic refugees in Oregon. By Susan W. Hardwick
Distance as an Illusion
John Yeon and the landscape arts of China and Japan. An essay by Kevin Nute